Nothing to important here but little fill in on all you jdm fans out there. I've noticed that you guys say we are all lucky to live in japan. Check out this. Today I have to pay road tax. All this leads to road tax. I have to get new JCI (Japanese Comprehensive Insurance) $253.80, Base Imspeciton (renew every time you get JCI) $28.50, Then Road Tax 17,000 yen (rough) thats about $150.00 bucks. So if you think we got it easy think again. Its not like in the states and pay registation/Saftey Inspection and you are on your marry little way. Just something to think about next time you say YOUR LUCK TO LIVE IN JAPAN!!!

 

I never thought to say that. But Its lucky for you guys cause you get all the good cars....

 

So all in all, you spent a total of ~$437. Just curious though, is this a monthly thing, or is it a yearly thing? I may not pay that much a month, but I'll be damned if I don't pay that much to the state in both sales tax / income tax and insurance.

 

I'm not sure about the japanese people, but its good for 2 years. But there are still things you need to do with in those 2 years/

 

Last time I got my car inspected and shakken'd it was about 100,000 yen... about a thousand bucks. absurd.

 

I work for Major Japanese company for 15yrs and all my coworker who came to do their 4 to 6 yrs term in US always cries when they return for good.
You get so spoil in American lifestyle and reality check hits you when you back to Japan. Life is tough back home in expensive little spaces. I don't mind hanging out for 2 weeks or so on business or pleasure but living there is another world.





Modified by machgo5go at 7:45 AM 10/18/2004

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by machgo5go &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I work for Major Japanese company for 15yrs and all my coworker who came to do their 4 to 6 yrs term in US always cries when they return for good.
You get so spoil in American lifestyle and reality check hits you when you back to Japan. Life is tough back home in expensive little spaces. I don't mind hanging out for 2 weeks or so on business or pleasure but living there is another world.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Yep. I haven't seen one person who seemed happy to head back home.

The grass is always greener on the other side, yadda yadda yadda. Not.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by LilistFear &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">... So if you think we got it easy think again. Its not like in the states and pay registation/Saftey Inspection and you are on your marry little way. Just something to think about next time you say YOUR LUCK TO LIVE IN JAPAN!!! </TD></TR></TABLE>

In most of the states I've lived in, I've had to pay a yearly excise tax for my cars that was between $300 - $600.

Still sucks though...

Jim

 

wrong forum. sounds like you need to go eat some tako yaki

 

The car taxes in Norway are worse than this and probably any other country.

A used ITR in decent shape costs around 35.000$ in Norway.
Thats almost TWICE as much as all the other european countries.

Our insurances are insane high, roadtaxes are crazy, and so is the gas-price.
1.5$ for one litre. And Norway is one of the biggest oil-counties in the world.

So i guess its fair for us in Norway to say You ARE lucky to live in Japan.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by LilistFear &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Nothing to important here but little fill in on all you jdm fans out there. I've noticed that you guys say we are all lucky to live in japan. Check out this. Today I have to pay road tax. All this leads to road tax. I have to get new JCI (Japanese Comprehensive Insurance) $253.80, Base Imspeciton (renew every time you get JCI) $28.50, Then Road Tax 17,000 yen (rough) thats about $150.00 bucks. So if you think we got it easy think again. Its not like in the states and pay registation/Saftey Inspection and you are on your marry little way. Just something to think about next time you say YOUR LUCK TO LIVE IN JAPAN!!! </TD></TR></TABLE>

After reading that, I STILL want to live in Japan

 

It's just another tax... whether it's income, sales, or cigarettes, the government's going to get the same amount of money. How the overall tax rate compares in Japan, I'm not sure...

At least you have a decent public transportation system. Most of us don't have the option of NOT driving.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by JeffS &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">It's just another tax... whether it's income, sales, or cigarettes, the government's going to get the same amount of money. How the overall tax rate compares in Japan, I'm not sure...

At least you have a decent public transportation system. Most of us don't have the option of NOT driving.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Double negative alert!

 

you are right, Japan sucks. I'm glad I live here in the States, but would love to have all the nice cars you guys get over there. Beautiful country you have there though..

 

I can agree with most of the things you guys have to say. I get home sick most of the time, but heck half the time I'm looking at nothing but water! =-P But none the less, I didn't pay my road tax, wanna hear some more funny news. If your time expires for weight tax, they will turn around and impound your car (on a US military base) and you have to go threw all these things to get your car back on the road. Today I didn't pass my on-base inspection, failed due to 2 lights (license plates, and a small head light) and my steering cvc boots where torn... Yeah they get pretty hard up here, but the mech that did the inspection (which is japanese) took me to the auto hobby shop and helped me put them on (yeah I've never dont it before) man jn's kick ***, best peeps around. Props to all you JN's out there! But anyways he said he will pass me tomarrow so I'm hoping I will pass at the LTO. Wish me luck!

 

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that is not a double negative.

I'd like to have cars that they have in Japan though. Not sure if living there is as fun.

 

hows the theft rate in japan? come bring your jdm itr over here to the US and lets see how long you keep it.

 

believe it or not its not too bad. I live in a military base and theft is like 0. But I still don't wanna take that chance. I want to bring the jdm itr back buts its kinda expensive. I know a guy that will do it for 5 g's. But I have to reassemble the whole car. So thats the only downside. I know back at home the ITR is a high risk car. But over here almost everyone has a security type device on their car...

 

does japan have the rule steal and get your hand chopped off? we need that here for grand theft auto